Time Traveling Taoster: Panini Press

The Panini Press is the new invention by Professor Frink ready to help you fight the Time Invaders. Join us right after the jump for a guide on how to upgrade it and what all its upgrades gives.

When you place the Panini Press, you can press it every time it charges to wipe out all Time Invaders at once. It can be upgraded by accumulating Tachyons. Tachyons can be obtained by playing in the Excavation Site and purchasing, crafting or winning items by the prize track.

Upgrading lowers the cool down, raises the tap radius when tapping Time Invaders, or gives out more Excavation Site rewards. The following table contains all the levelling goals you need to reach to obtain each level.

level

name

upgrade

cost

1

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 18h!

1.012

2

Tap Radius Upgrade

Include more nearby Time
Invaders on each tap!

2.025

3

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 12h!

4.050

4

Excavation Site Upgrade

Gain an extra 10% rewards
at each Excavation!

6.074

5

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 10h!

8.099

6

Tap Radius Upgrade

Include more nearby Time
Invaders on each tap!

10.124

7

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 8h!

12.149

8

Excavation Site Upgrade

Gain an extra 10% rewards
at each Excavation!

14.174

9

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 6h!

16.198

10

Tap Radius Upgrade

Include more nearby Time
Invaders on each tap!

18.223

11

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 5h!

20.248

12

Excavation Site Upgrade

Gain an extra 10% rewards
at each Excavation!

22.273

13

Tap Radius Upgrade

Include more nearby Time
Invaders on each tap!

24.298

14

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 4h!

26.322

15

Tap Radius Upgrade

Include more nearby Time
Invaders on each tap!

28.347

16

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 3h!

30.372

17

Excavation Site Upgrade

Gain an extra 10% rewards
at each Excavation!

32.397

18

Tap Radius Upgrade

Include more nearby Time
Invaders on each tap!

34.421

19

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 2h!

34.446

20

Tap Radius Upgrade

Include more nearby Time
Invaders on each tap!

38.471

21

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 1h!

40.496

22

Excavation Site Upgrade

Gain an extra 10% rewards
at each Excavation!

42.926

23

Cool Down Upgrade

Decrease the time between
Mega Blasts to 6s!

44.950

Most items in the event give out Tachyons too. The following is a list of all items that do and their reward.

There were an Easter Egg aka Glitch that awarded infinite Tachyons every time Homer Lizard, Darwin Fish, Wisecracking Parrot, Baby T-Rex, Raptor, Giant Screamapillar and/or Blackbeard were placed in town (after getting them or from storage).

Ex. You could pickup the Darwin Fish and place it again from storage and receive the Tachyons. Then pick it up and place it again to receive it all over again.

It is called an exploit. You exploit a loophole in the programming to gain progress/currency.
EA hates exploits. As soon as it is public knowledge and EA sees it – it is immediately re-programmed to close the loophole.
That is why Topix, wikisimpsons and other blogs/forums do not post about it in a clear way. There will be hints but not plain step by step instructions.
Anyway, someone shouted it out, it got to EAs ear and the loophole/exploit is gone.